I imagine that people who has spent even just a moderate amount of time studying fine art will be able to say “Oh, that’s an Edward Hopper” or “That’s a Picasso” even if they’ve never seen the particular work in question. The blocked colors and city scenes of a Hopper or the seemingly-casual strokes in a Picasso are often emulated but not quite the same.

This is largely true with scanographers as well. I can reasonably pick out from a lineup the works of at least three or four scanner photography artists, their subject matter and style leaving fingerprints all over their work (but not their carefully cleaned scanner glass!).

One such artist who’s style is readily recognized with her intricate designs packed full of flowers is Sandra R. Shulze, here with her “Floral Collage 18”:

(My wife would never let me get away with cutting so many flowers from our garden…but it’s a moot point, we don’t have that many!)

Sandra’s works evoke memories of fine floral needlepoint works from the 1800’s, though I imagine the fine ladies making such would be jealous of the brilliant colors captured by a scanner that couldn’t be accurately captured in their delicate threads. But we get to enjoy both — assuming you have a great-grandmother that bequeathed such an embroidery to you!